UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, 1937
NUMBER 51
The
Passing Show
Second OARP Tests
Souvenir Hunters
Fingerprints Sought
Floods l nubuted
By DARREL ELLIS
Local Spending Spree
Chelan, Washington, recently
famed as an experiment station foi
the Townsend revolving pensior
plan, will have to share its plaet
in the nation's spotlight with Eu
gene when plans now in progress
for a similar $200-a-month spend
ing spree in this city are completec
by local merchants.
The Eugene experiment will dif
fer in three respects from the one
now drawing attention to Chelan
Two allotments of “tagged” dol
lars instead of one will be circu
lated. The money more than $14C
of which has already been raised
will be donated by merchants
Purchases with the tagged dollar
must be made with donating mer
chants, who have agreed to la>
aside two per cent of the receipts
as a transaction tax.
Trouble at Chelan
Souvenir hunters were threaten
ing to “gum up the works” yester
day at Chelan, Washington, where
68-year-old C. C. Fleming is spend,
ing $200 within 30 days as a Town
send revolving pension plan expe
riment.
Mayor W. T. Price considered
passing a city ordinance to bai
hoarding of “tagged” dollars. An
other suggested answer to the
problem was to charge collectors
twice the amount of the hoarded
money, thus earning more for the
transaction tax “kitty,” now
amounting to $10.66.
Jlaids Corral Suspects
Federal, state, and local police
yesterday threw out a vast “drag
net” over Portland, Seattle, Ta
coma, Everett, and other smaller
cities in an attempt to identify by
fingerprints the kidnapper-slayer
of Charles Mattson. Prints were
taken of all suspicious characters.
Reliable sources in Tacoma said
the kidnaper had left his prints on
the French windows through which
the boy was spirited away, and
also on the ransom note. Whole
sale arrests will not be made, au
thorities announced, but some of
those taken into custody may be
held for questioning.
An Inch an Hour
Rising at the rate of an inch an
hour, the White river in Indiana
had broken through levees near
Decker, Indiana, yesterday to loose
a seven-foot cataract and inundate
thousands of acres of fertile farm
lands. The levee protecting the
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Entertainers^
In Cc He^e Night
Club Get Jobs
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
Student entertainers from the
famous Silver Shadow, of Iowa uni
versity, only university-sponsored
soft-drink night club in the coun
try, appeared last week in two Chi
cago night clubs, the College Inn
and the Old Town room, at the
personal invitation of Major Frank
Bering, the clubs’ manager.
The troupe is made up of the
following students: Madge Jones
brunette torch singer; Rand>
Whinnery, tenor; the Silver Shad
ow Sweethearts, featured' girl trie
on WSUI, the university radio sta
tion; Howard Moor, baritone and
collegiate Bing Crosby; Wally Wal.
lace, negro tap dancer; George Nis
sen, Zave Leonard and Charles
Brown, equilibrium artists: Norms
Leany and Larry Griswold, feat
ured comedy adagio duo. Griswolc
r is a member of the physical educa
tion staff at Iowa university.
f acationers Forgot
"Vacations are a bad thing. The>
make students forget most of whai
they know." Thus Professor War
ner Brown, cf the psychology dc
partment at the University of Cal
ifornia, contradicted the theory o;
Oregon State college psychologist:
that the general knowledge of pu
pils increases during vacations.
Finals are the primary cause o:
this forgetting. Dr. Brown believes
"Our examination system encour
ages study on the installment plar
where the student works intensive
ly for a few weeks, takes his fina
and promptly forgets most all hi
knows about the subject.”
“The length of the vacation i.
unimportant. Personally I think a:
much harm comes from a week-enc
skiing trip as from a long vacation
The thing which makes student
forgetful is breaking the continuity
of work and thought.”
Scribes Gather
| For Press Meet
Opening Today
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Publishers Open Three
Day Session; Former
Students Return for
19th Conference
PRESS CONFERENCE
SCEDULE
3:00 p.m. Meeting of the
board of directors, Oregon
Newspaper Publishers’ Associa
tion, Eugene Hotel.
0:30 p.m. Annual publishers'
round table and dinner, Eugene
Hotel.
Alton F. Baker, Eugene Reg
ister-Guard, presiding.
(For publishers, newspaper
executives and owners only.)
By DAVE COX
Members of the journalism fac
ulty prepared t« greet former stu
dents today, as the nineteenth an
nual Oregon press conference
drew editors, publishers, journal
ists, and advertising men from all
sections of the country to discuss
pertinent newspaper questions at
the three-day session.
""The conference will open tonight
with a meeting of the board of
directors of the Oregon newspaper
publishers’ association, followed by
a dinner and roundtabfe discussion.
Faculty Will Welcome
Delegates and speakers will be
welcomed by Dean Eric W. Allen,
Professor George W. Turnbull,
Assistant Professors Charles M.
Hulten and Arne Rae, all of the
| school of journalism, Robert C.
' Hall, superintendent of the Uni
j versity press; Prof. W. F. G.
Thacher, teacher of English and
advertising, added to the journal
ism staff this year.
Many former Oregon students
will take part in the program.
Allen To Be Here
Jay C. Allen, prominent among
journalists of the nation, will ar
rive on the campus Saturday
morning and will be guest speak
er at the no-host luncheon to be
held in the John Straub Memorial
building Saturday at 12:30. Mr.
Allen is a former Oregon student,
ex-’22. Although he was not en
rolled in the school of journalism
while here, he spent a large per
centage of his spare time around
the shack and worked on the staff
; of the Oregon Daily Emerald.
Harris Ellsworth, former Ore
gon man and now of the Roseburg
News Review, will be among the
first to arrive. Frank Loggan of
the Bend Bulletin is also expected,
providing heavy snow in central
Oregon does not cljse the roads.
State Headliners Attend
Leith Abbott, advertising man
ager of the Portland offices of the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon
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Social Chairman
Rales Out Cords
For Whiskerino
In an official statement last
night from Isabel Miller, cam
pus social chairman, cords were
declared out of order for the
Sophomore Whiskerino. Instead
suits for the whiskered gentle
men, and dressy woolens or silks
for their companions were de
clared the vogue.
Denton Burdick, dance chair
man. retracted his previous cord
ultimatum in deference to the
social chairman who reversed his
statement because even North
ern belles and their escorts t in
spite of whiskers), on such a
noteworthy occasion as a min
stral show, would not attend the
performance in their field cos
tumes.
Donald French
NamedAirCadet
Sophomore Gets Notice to
Report for Training at
Randolph Field
In reply to his application for a
flying cadet appointment, Donald
J. French, sophomore in business
administration, was notified yes
terday that he was authorized to
report to Randolph field, Texas,
army training field, as an enlisted
cadet.
Requirements are two years of
college and to pass a strict army
physical examination. French took
his examination at Ft. Lewis,
Washington, August 27, 1936.
French must report March 1,
1937, after his enlistment as a fly
ing cadet is approved by the near
est army recruiting station. The
enlistment will be for three years,
after which, if the course is com
pleted, the cadet will be placed on
extended active duty as a reserve
officer with tactical units of the
air corps, receiving the same pay
and allowances as a second lieu
tenant of the regular army while
on duty.
Coed Swimming
Group Will Hold
Try-outs Today
Tryouts for Amphibians, wo
men’s swimming honorary, will be
held this evening at 7:15 in the
pool of Gerlinger hall.
To qualify for membership in the
organization, girls taking part in
the tryouts must swim one stroke
for speed and two different strokes
for form, do three dives, and swim
22 lengths of the pool. Perfect
dives are awarded 10 points. Con
testants must make an average
score'of seven.
Scene at the Ballet
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Dancers with colorful costumes swirl in this scene taken from one
of the Ballet Russe. Oregon students will see the troupe on the campus
February 4.
Flu Peak Jumps
As 42 Patients
Jam Infirmary
New Emergency Word
Eliminates Crowding;
Social Affairs Will Not
Be Banned, Is Report
A new peak has been reached at
the ilnfirmary where forty-two pa
tients are in bed today principally
because of the flu epidemic.
With the extra help and the co
operation of the student body, it
is expected that the seige will soon
be over.
Professor C. B. Beall and Dean
Victor P. Morris have been con
fined at their homes this week
with the flu.
Situation the Same
“The flu situation on the cam
pus seems to be about the same,"
Dr. Fred C. Miller, head of the
health service said, “except that
more students are being accomo
dated at the infirmary.”
If the condition remains as it is.
with no turn for the worse, local
schools will not be closed.
Patients Listed
New hospital patients today are:
Anne Barton, Ruth Starrett, Helen
Wooden, Genevieve McNiece, Bet
ty Yokum, Margaret Patterson,
Lois Strong, Beverly Wickler, Jean
Beard, Helen Murphy, and those
already confined are: Margaret
Johnson, Burrnice Howell, Polly
Lou Todd, Irene WilliaVns, Felker
Morris, Betty Baker, Betty Dye,
Betty Pownall, Katherine Leuck,
Phyllis Elder, and Francis Miller.
In the Emergency hospital new
patients are: Harry Fall, George
Williams, Elmer Williams, Stuart
Marsee, George Smith, William
Marshall, John Peterson, and Fred
Hammond.
Students already confined in the
Emergency hospital are: Aaron
Rubino, Milton Johnson, Melvin
Johnson, Kenneth Leatherman,
Bill Pengra, Barnard Hall, Avery
Combs, John Beckett, Clifford
Morris, Richard Russell, Donald
Johnson, Kenneth Abraham, and
Robert Morris.
Hal Young Urges
Concert Backing
Hal Young, professor of voice,
advises students to set aside the
half hour from 6 to 6:30, Wednes
day, January 27, to gather at the
music auditorium, where the Uni
versity symphony orchestra will
Dresent a nation-wide broadcast.
This program, featuring Dorothy
Louise Johnson, student violinist,
and Mr. Young, will be broadcast
over the blue network of NBC.
‘‘This broadcast is one of the
biggest things that has ever come
to the University,” stated Mr.
Young, ‘‘and should be given the
full cooperation of every student
on the campus ... it will put the
University of Oregon on the map!”
Mr. Young also pointed out that if (
this broadcast is a success, it will I
become a regular feature.
The broadcast will be sent by
private wire from Eugene to Port- i
land, where it will connect with the
national hook-up.
Winant to Attend
League Meeting
At UO in Mareli
John G. Winant, chairman of the
social security board, will attend
the commonwealth conference, and
the annual convention of the
League of Oregon Cities, at the
University, March 18 and 19, ac
cording to word received by Her
man Kehrli, director of the bureau
and the executive secretary of the
league.
Mr. Winant will deliver the ban
quet address and also participate
in the discussion of the social se
curity act and its administration.
A former governor of New
Hampshire, Mr. Winant was the
first to be reelected in eigty years, I
and first to serve three terms in
that office.
His visit to the University will
be his first to. the Pacific North
iwest. He was invited to the con
ference last year but was unable
to attend.
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Queer Telegram
Stumps Campus
Cryptograp h is ts
Jay Allen's telegraphic accept
ance of an invitation to speak at
the Saturday luncheon of the
Oregon press conference set cam
pus crytographists scratching
their puzzled heads.
"Thanks," read the message,
"WOULD ENJOY SPEAKING
SATURDAY LUNCH STOP
MAY EYE BRING MY FAT
HER BES "
Wonder as to who or what the
famed foreign correspondent was
bringing beset everyone who at
tempted to decipher the commun
ication. Nonplussed p u z z 1 e r s
salved their inability by main
taining that the sentence would
baffle even the best efforts of
famed Major Yardley of "Amer
ica’s Black Chamber.”
Guesses as to what “fat er
bes" might be ran rampant, un
til prosaic, mercenary Western
Union dashed the decoders’ fan
tasies with a correction.
Mr. Allen is bringing his
father.
And "bes" was a shortening of
"best regards.”
Snow Train Date
' Set at January 31
Obsidians Give Free Movies
And Baek Winter Sport
Trip to Crescent Lake
With 70 inches of snow beckon
ing ski lovers, a Southern Pacific
snow-train will leave Eugene Sun
day morning, January 31, at 7
o'clock, bound for the wide open
skiing country at Crescent Lake,
on the summit of the Cascades. The
train will leave on the return trip
about 5:30, arriving in Eugene at
9.
Last year 630 students made the
trip. The round trip fare is $2.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner may
be had in the dining car or the
skiers may bring their own lunch
es.
In conjunction with the trip two
free pictures on skiing will be
shown at the Mayflower theater
Friday evening, January 22, at 11
Both events are sponsored by the
Obsidian Ski club of Eugene. In
charge of arrangements for the
trip is Norwald Nelson, manager
of the shoe department of McMor
ran and Washburn. Harry Wright,
president of the Obsidians, is in
charge of the pictures.
Tickets for the snow-train trip
may be obtained from Ralph
Schomp, educational activities
manager.
TCLACA Will Plan
Future Activities
The Two Can Live as Cheaply
association will hold its first meet
ing of the term in Gerlinger al
umnae hall this evening at 7:30.
Plans for future activities of the
married students’ organization will
be made at this time.
A call will be issued to veteran
married students to assist men and
women in other colleges who plead
for information to enable them to
live cheaply.
“The TCLACA will not fail po
tential colleagues in other univer
sities.” declared Howard Kessler,
president of the organization. "We
feel sure that there are those here
who have sufficient experience in
budgeting to send other couples off
on the great adventure of marriage
with happy hearts ” In the future I
the TCLACA will have material of
its own with which to advise stu
dents contemplating marriage.”
Dr. Larsell Interviews
Pre-medical Students
Dr. O. Larsell of the University
of Oregon medical school in Port
land was on the campus all yester
day interviewing students who are
expecting to file applications for
admission into the medical school
this fall. Dr. Larsell interviewed
25 students.
Asklepiads, national medical hon
orary, gave a dinner at the An
chorage last night in honor of Dr.
Larsell. He was the main speaker
of the evening.
iSr.xt on Program
K*‘('diin(inK iiuvt'iuurt' ix-iow mo
anturtio rirelr, Knud Admiral Klch
ard K. Kyrad will 1**11 Ids exciting
story with mo*ion pictures.
Byrd’s Talk Open
To Prep Students
Schomp, Truax, Hamby
Will ('onturl Schools in
Nearby Cities
To extend to high school stu
dents the opportunity of attending
the lecture of Admiral Byrd here
January 27, Woodrow .Truax,
Bruce Hamby and Ralph Schomp
wiil visit the prep schools between
Albany and Roseburg, Schomp
university activities manager, said
yesterday. The trio will leave Fri
day morning.
Admiral Byrd will talk in Mc
Arthur court Wednesday evening
at 8:15 to give his own story of
new discoveries and conquests he
and his party conducted in Ant
arctica on their last, expedition.
Nine thousand feet of exclusive
motion pictures, with Byrd telling
the story as the film is shown, is
scheduled.
The"”picture.s include flights of
Byrd in his Condor plane, rebuild
ing of Little America, the strange
life of the “dead” continent, ex
ploratory flights and Admiral
Byrd at the advance base—a tiny
hut 123 miles south of Little Am
erica, where he maintained the
world’s southernmost weather sta
tion during five months of the
polar night.
Interesting to University stu
dents is the fact that Clark Spur
lock, junior in social science, was
one of the six boy scouts that
were selected from the United
States at large to go to New York
as guests of the Admiral. Of these
six Paul Siple of New York city
was selected to join the antarctic
expedition.
Drug Magazine
Publishes New
Cornish Article
An article, “The Effectiveness of
Drug Store Window Displays,” by
Dr. N. H. Cornish, professor of bus
iness administration, appeared in
the January issue of the Pacific
Drug Review.
In his article Dr. Cornish points
out that some drug displays are
more effective than others in at
tracting passer-sby. He says that
drug displays in general are not as
attractive as grocery and dry good
displays.
Dr. Cornish believes drug dis
plays would attract more attention
if druggists were to introduce mo
tion into their window displays and
attach price tags to the merchan
dise displayed.
Tau Delta Delta
Plans Concert
For This Term
*Tau Delta Delta, women's local
music honorary, formulated plans
for a concert to be given the latter
part of winter term at a meeting
held Tuesday night in the music
building.
The following committee chair
men were appointed for the con
cert: Jane Hall, program; Shirley
Rising, ushers; Frederica Merrell,
publicity; Frances Douglas, print
ed programs; Dorothy Burgess,
time and place.
On the program for the meeting
was Phoebe Breyman, who gave a
cornet solo, “Flight of the Bumble
Bee.”
Action of Individual
Houses is Asked on
Turf Field Donation
50 Cents Per Man Set as Seale; Each
Group to Have Own Representative;
Sororities Contribute Heavily
Answering statements of fraternities that no definite plan
had been presented for their acceptance or rejection, Bill Van
Dusen and Dick Watson last night outlined a budget of the
cost of the work and plans for meeting the figures set forth in it.
At the same time, Ed Rcames, president of the interfrater
nity council, reiterated the council's decision of last Thursday
that action on donations should come from the fraternities
individually and not through the council. Several organizaHo""
Classes Leave Rooms
la Journalism Ruililing
For Cress Conference
Due to the conference being
held in thi* Journalism building,
classes ordinarily meeting there
will he moved elsewhere, us fol
lows, on Friday, January 22,
only:
8:0ft—E conomles 202, Cl
(Crumbaker)—1 Education.
8:00—Social Science, 102, Cl
(Jameson) — lift Johnson.
9:00—E n g I i s h 2 0 2, C 2
(Lesch) —105 McClure.
9:00—Social Science 102, C3
(Moore)—1 Oregon.
10:00—English 112, C13
(Waffle)—I Commerce.
10:00—English 135 (Ernst)
—301 Condon.
11:00—English 112, CSS
(Blair)—100 Oregon.
1:00—English 105, C2 (Moll)
—2 Education.
2:00—English 395, (Moll) —
2 Education.
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Class Changes
To Be Discussed
By Emmerson
Mr. D. A. Emmerson, assistant
state superintendent of public in
struction, will speak on “Proced
ure in Revising the Curriculum”
Monday night at 7:30 in the new
men’s gym. Phi Delta Kappa,
men’s educational honorary, is
sponsoring the lecture.
Mr. Emmerson's talk will be the
second in a series being given to
acquaint the public with curricu
lum revision.
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iaa announced mey wouia await
llie council’s further deliberation
despite the fact that /-he body
lad definitely decided not to take
i stand as a unit.
On the campus, all living organ
izations are being contacted in a
contribution drive. Each house is
being asked to donate r>0 cents for
each man, in order to “even up”
fairly the sums requested No
money had been collected from
fraternities last night although a
more intensive canvass of sorori
ties had produced nearly $150 or
about one-half the sum expected
of the women's groups.
In fraternities, dormitories, and
all other living organizations on
the campus, students will be ap
pointed within the next few days
to push the plan in the group and
to aid in collections. Announce
ment of the committeemen is
awaiting the approval of ASUO
president Gib Schultz.
To Handle Whole I>rive
Committeemen ap|iof,nted
through Schultz will be in charge
of all phases of the drive for their
group. In men’s organizations,
each committeeman will also be
entrusted with planning and work
ing for the all-campus turf dance
to be given in Gerlinger hall in
February, while women represen
tatives will concentrate their ef
forts on a tag day which will be
conducted downtown on January
30 but which will not touch the
campus.
At a later date, a drive coupled
with a matinee dance, may be con
ducted on the campus.
A complete budget of the cost
of the work, estimated to be well
under $2,000, will be released to
morrow by F. A. Cuthbert, in
charge of building and grounds.
Van Dusen and Watson will re
lease tomorrow also the complete
budget for their drive.
Barber Avoids Wedding
By Becoming UO Student
Leap year and its unwritten "bill of rights,” granting woman the
privilege of proposing to the man of her dreams has just passed. A
business ad student is taking no chances on getting "hooked” by his
lady friend for some time yet.
The student, a haircutter in a campus barber shop, quit a beauty
parlor job and registered as a freshman here because his sweetheart
became too insistent that the couple get married.
"Shucks,” he chuckled apologetically as he lounged in a davenport
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between haircuts, "i HKe my giri
very well, but somehow I don't feel
lust like marrying: her rigfht now.
But I didn't have the heart to tell
her just outright, you know. Ro
when I received word of an open
ing in this shop I figured that by
taking the job it's only part time
and going to school the rest of
the time I could stall her off for a
while longer."
The barber explained that he had
already quit a job in Vernonia
that’s where he first met her last
summer for the supposedly better
position in Seaside so that he
could “make a little more dough to
get married on."
‘‘At least that’s what I told her.
But I was lucky business wasn't
so hot in Seaside so we had to post
pone things for a while longer.
And, since this college life is sort
of expensive, I figure that any job I
land next summer will net me only
enough to pay off my debts for this
winter. I guess the girl won't mind
the delay.
The girl friend? Well, she's home
cn the farm ‘‘gettin’ ready for her
wedding,” but the elusive hair
cutter confesses that he'll “pass
out” if she hears of Oregon’s
TCLAOA and dashes down here to
join.
MANHATTAN
OR GLOVER
PAJAMAS
Pajamas of these brands are
real values at this price.
Come in while our January
Sale is in progress. You will
save money on everything
you buy.
$2.00 values!
Reduced to—
JOE
RICHARDS
MEN S STORE
873 Willamette